About Us
Wood Spoon Farm
Wood Spoon Farm is a practice-based intangeable heritage, fiber and food sovereignty project
focused on resource re-distribution and ecological futuricity resesarch in collaboration with extant farms, innovators, and the earth.
Our mission is to challenge existing structures of power through practice-based research in circular business-, whole homestead- farm and agroecology systems in order to be able to model community-sized food and fiber sovereignty. Wood Spoon Farm uses a conceptual model of partnering with existing farms and places to explore, build and develop methodologies towards sustainable practices and equitable exchange.
Our values are:
Embodied Patching: Practicing craft as resistance/refusal and radical homemaking.
Knowledge Quilting: Committing increased representation in multidisciplinary, intergenerational, agroecology practice-based research projects illuminating solutions within “the art of farming,” ethical interdependence, and food and fiber systems.
Visible Mending: reversing extractive and colonial logics by implementing regenerative models and by testing diverse perspectives.
Reinfoorced stitching: finding traditional, intangeable heritage lessons to build on, with modern tools and strategies.
Who are we
Founder Tracy jonsson-laboy
Wood Spoon Farm is a family business founded to model a fully circular, no kill- animal sanctuary and subsistence food- and fiber sovereignty homestead in 2030. Other fibers of study include wild fibers and those from fiber producing ruminants.
Wood Spoon Farm was founded by humanist and social practice and textile artist Tracy and her husband and life-long animal tender Angel. Tracy has an undergraduate and masters degree in historic preservation from Roger Williams University, and a cultural degree in slöjd, textile and sustainability studies from Hemslöjden i Östergötland, Linköping Sweden. Half Swedish and half Dominican, Jonsson-Laboy has built and managed multiple permaculture, no dig gardens in Rhode Island, Florida, and in Sweden, expanding to flax growing in 2024.
She is an experienced textile artist with deep knowledge of spinning, weaving, knitting and other processes who has spent a majority of her professional career strategizing within arts and humanities non-profit organizations.
She is experienced in circular economics and design, textile lifecycle and value chain analysis, and wants to use this knowledge towards innovation in sustainable fibers. Textile projects are on view at www.tracyjonssonlaboy.com
